This is the second in a series of posts about detailing your scratch built starship models. Part One is here. Kit Photo Buckets Every time I get a new model kit in I make a point of photographing the parts… Read More »Modeling How-To: Detailing Part 2
Yesterday morning the house was quiet with everyone asleep, so I wrote the final two scenes in my latest novella, Corvette. It feels good to have that behind me. I was thinking it might stretch out to be a novel,… Read More »Corvette Draft One Complete
This weekend it was cool outside so I busted out the blue screen and a finished model and took some pictures of it. That of course led to some Gimp action with some pretty background images. Since my brother was… Read More »GCU Griffin
I still have three more books to release in the coming months. This month it’s the novella, The Blood Empress about Empress Nykostra the leader of the Votainion Empire. If you’re reading along in the Star Saga this book chronologically goes… Read More »The Blood Empress on Pre-Sale
Spent some time this weekend installing a mount on my first starship model, so I can photograph it for future book cover art. The process involved cutting away a hole and then sticking in a piece of wood with a… Read More »Sokol Refit
(Revised the scale from 1/350 to 1/500.) I calculated the scale of my GCU Sokol model and came up with 1/500. So this beast is about 330 meters long and can house about 1,000 crew. It’s slightly larger than the… Read More »GCU Sokol Size
Kate Donaldson via Compfight I’ve been scrutinizing pictures of the studio models of Star Destroyers that ILM built for the original Star Wars trilogy and some other famous Studio Scale starship models. Some observations follow. If you’re not into modeling,… Read More »Studio Scale Model Observations
I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of camouflage on starships. When I was in college, I had a collection of Star Trek models, the old-school original series versions, back when they were affordable. I painted one of my modified… Read More »Spaceship Camouflage
Interstellar travel in the time before the Great War was limited to long journeys with nuclear powered starships. The military began experimenting with tunnel drive starships and production on them was just getting started when the war broke. The first… Read More »Early Fleet Starships